gov. tv two and live streamed online at sfgovtv. org forward slash ethics live for public comment. members of the public may attend in person, or may participate by phone or the webex platform, as explained in our agenda document. mr. clerk, would you explain how remote public comment will be handled? public comment will be available on each item on this agenda. each member of the public will be allowed three minutes to speak. for those attending in person, opportunities to speak during public comment period

will be made available here in room 400, city hall. for those attending remotely, public comment period can also be provided via phone call by1. ace is 26644795037, followed by the pound sign, and then press pound again to join as an attendee. when your item of interest comes up, please press star three to raise your hand to be added to the public comment line. public comment is also available viax . use the webex link on the agenda to connect and press the raise hand button to be added to the public comment line. for detailed instructions about how to interact with the telephone system or webex client, please refer to the public comment section of the agenda document for this meeting. public comment may also be submitted in writing and will be shared with the with the commission after the meeting has concluded and will and will

be included as part of the official meeting file. written comments should be sent to ethics commission at sfgov. org. members of the public who attend commission meetings, including remote attendance, are expected to behave responsibly and respectfully during public comment. please address your comments to the commission as a whole and not to individual members. persons who engage in name calling, shouting interruptions or other distracting behavior may be excluded from participation. thank you, mr. clerk. i now call the meeting to order. better gavel. mr. clerk, would you please call the roll? under item one, commissioners, please verbally indicate your presence by saying i after your name is called. chair i, commissioner safaí i, commissioner francois. i chair finley with three members present and accounted for. you have a quorum. thank you, mr. clerk. with that i call agenda item two. general public comment. does anyone in the room wish to make general public

comment? ma'am. good morning. happy friday. my name is ellen lee zhou. right there. l l e n l e z h o u. i pledge allegiance to the flag of the united states of america and to the republic for which it stands. one nation under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. born, unborn and vaccinated. and unvaccinated. i am here today to remind you, for the commissioners you are willing to take oath to protect our city. for the you pay, to take the oath to protect our city. on election night, november fifth,

2024, i was at pier 31 as a poll watcher and see what's going on. and the situation is at the commission. you received many complaints about election interference, the media and the puppet master keep saying five people running for mayor. so today i am giving you public record. today is the report five in the ballot running for mayor. it's 13 people plus two write in candidates. so a tol of 15 people. but on the ballot 13 people. i am one of them running for mayor. i have coming in here reporting to you. is unethical. it's election interference for many of the

democratic leaders, parties and associates. keep lying to the media and the voters. of course, about election. only five people running for mayor. so this is public record. i'm going to give it to you. report number five. 15 people running for mayor. and on election night, november 5th, 2024, i was at pier 31, approximately 150 ballots. that has not counted yet. the puppetmasters already say they are winning. so? so what's the point for election? there's no point for election because we know it's selected into the office today. i'm also giving you a record right here. this is dated november 7th from the election office. and they still have a lot of votes. you are talking about 143,000 votes and

has not counted totally yet, but the result is already there. and the same thing with california at 8:00 shop. they already announced the situation. so i urge you today to do investigation for about election fraud. thank you. your time. so this is public record for you. thank you. thank you. mr. clerk, would you check if there are any remote public commenters? we have one caller in the queue. welcome, caller. you have three minutes. begins now. knock, knock. well, no, actually, this is my chamber. this is my city hall. so my name is san francisco, and i'm to hear myself and my voice only for the next three minutes. so say the constitution and the brown act. law. so this ethics commission

was established in november of 93 after the tax, after the voters and the taxpayers passed proposition k, it was approximately 30 years ago. what have we done for the last 30 years? i see a lot of complacency. i see a lot of ignorance. i see a lot of arrogance. i see a lot of appointments by city officials such as the mayor or former mayor. at this time. there's a lot of things going on in the city, and you've been apprized of many of those matters. in fact, the one from mark farrell is coming up very shortly. so we need to get this straight and we need to get it straight with the new mayor. all of you need to leave. you are absolutely up to your ignorant, your arrogance. you have no purpose in this city and every single candidate on the ballot should be voted for. every single vote should be counted. if city attorney needs to, if we need a new city

attorney that knows how to read the constitution, so be it. it's called the first amendment. freedom of speech. freedom of the press, freedom of religion, and so forth. so we need to get this shit together because right now, as it stands, i'm looking at four or whether 4 or 5 ignorant buffoons. there's a clerk, there's any more profanity, just cut him off, okay? and i don't know if. is there an attorney there? is there an attorney present at this meeting, or is that cue ball in the corner over there? so keep your shit together and get packed up and leave. thank you. as a reminder, members of the public persons who engage in name calling, shouting interruptions or other distracting behavior may be excluded from participation. so if hear more profanity, i'm going to ask the folks in charge to cut off the comment. we appreciate all public comment and we encourage it, but this is not a place for name calling or other distracting behavior. that's not relevant to what we're doing. mr. clerk, would you check if there are any other

public commentators, commenters? public comment. chairman live. there are no more callers. thank you, mr. clerk. i now call the meeting to order. sorry, i'm on the wrong page. hearing no further public comment. public comment on item two is now on the agenda, there will be no separate disssion on the consent calendar unless the request is made by a member of the public or a member of the commission to discuss that item. if any commissioner wishes to discuss an item, it will be taken up and we'll discuss it. does any commissioner wish to discuss any item on the consent calendar? seeing none, does any public. does anyone in the room wish to discuss an item on the consent calendar? seeing none, mr. clerk, would you check if there are any remote public comment on the consent calendar? chair, we were checking to see if there were callers in the

queue. chair findlay there are no callers. thank you, mr. cler. public comment on the consent calendar is now closed. i moved to adopt the staff's recommendations on the consent , includes adopting the draft minutes. and i believe that's the only action item on the consent calendar. is there a second? second. mr. clerk, would you take roll, please, on the motion to adopt the consent calendar? chair finley, i commissioner safaí i commissioner francois i chair finley. with three votes in the in the affirmative, the motion is approved unanimously. thank you, mr. clerk. i now call item number six. discussion and possible action regarding proposed stipulation in the matter of mark farrell for yes on prop d. mark farrell for mayor 2024. mark farrell and roy herrera. miss matthews. good

morning. chair finley. commissioners. for the record, my name is bc matthews. i'm the director of enforcement. so this case involves eight counts of campaign finance violations against mayor mark farrell. i'm sorry. he's a candidate. committee. the mark farrell for mayor 2024 committee and his candidate control ballot measure committee. the mayor, mark farrell, for yes on prop d committee andñ for the record, mr. roy herrera who served as the treasurer for both committees, is also named, but only in his capacity as treasurer for the committees and bears no personal liability in this matter. the counts in this matter are straightforward, and the law is very clear. the law imposes a $500 contribution limit for candidate committees, and any payments to a candidate committee are presumed to be contributions, unless the committees can show that the contributor received full and adequate consideration. no such consideration. excuse me. no

such contribution limit exists for ballot measure committees. here, the investigation revealed that the ballot measure committee made a series of payments to the mayoral committee, but did not receive full and adequate consideration for certain payments that was made to the mayoral committee. therefore, those payments that were over the $500 limit were illegal. contributions to the mayoral committee. the investigation determined the series of prohibited contributions to be over $93,000. this amount excludes the payments that were refunded as described under counts one and two. this matter was initiated following a complaint that was received by the enforcement division in late june, and we consider these violations in this matter to be very severe and recognize how important it was for us to do everything in our power to publicly resolve this matter dao that the public would have the

information about these violations when it mattered most. this recommended record penalty reflects the serious harm that was done to the public's right to have a timely and accurate, to have timely and accurate information about how campaigns are funded in san francisco. it also reflects the severity of violating the $500 contribution limit, which is one of the most basic rules that all candidates must follow. i would like to add here that this case is a demonstration of the enforcement division's commitment to vigorously enforce against major violations. we're grateful for the support that we received from director ford in channeling enough resources towards resolving this matter in a timely this matter in a timely manner, and will continue in future elections to pursue campaign finance violations during the election. i'd also like to commend the efforts of the two investigators assigned to this case, senior investigator jeff zumwalt, who's

here who conducted the investigation, and senior investigator zach zach d'amico, who supported the investigation. as the attorney assigned to this matter and helped negotiate the settlement agreement. finally, i would also just like to recognize and thank mr. david lazarus, who's counsel for respondents. he's present here today for working with us and cooperating in this matter. we're happy to answer any questions. and i'll have mr. zumwalt here to assist with answering any questions that you may have. thank you. thank you, director matthews, and thank you for your to your staff for your work on this. i have 1 or 2 quick questions, but i'll yield to my colleagues if they i do too. but i can follow you just. i don't want you to speak beyond what's in the stipulation, because i know you can't, but. and i think it's in there. but i wanted to confirm, as i understand it, the only basis for the intended 50/50 split was some kind of assumption. i guess that the campaigns would benefit equally. but then there was no

follow up tracking to make sure that actually happened. is that right? i mean, the 50 over 50 was just kind of, as i understand, based on a forward looking assumption that was then not actually tracked to ensure it would happen. is that basically right? right. the evidence did not reveal any tracking done by the respondents to support the assumption for 50 over 50. that's correct. right. okay. i have a question following up on that. but i first wanted to commend you and the team for a really excellent investigation. it looks like a complex analysis and a difficult thing to try to trace. trace and confirm. but on on those lines on page 15, there is a reference that the respondents compliance counsel issued a memorandum in july 2024 claiming that staff time was tracked and accounted for regarding how much was spent on the campaign versus the candidate committee. was that a representation that was made to the ethics commission during the investigation? it was not made

to the ethics commission. the ethics commission discovered that memo during the course of our investigation. okay. were there any similar misrepresentations made by the respondents in response to requests for information by the commission? not that we're aware of during our investigation. all of the requests that were made, we the most for the most part, received responses to and we didn't determine any false representation from the respondents. thank you. that part stuck out to me, particularly because it looks like through your investigation, those representations appear to be false. from that july 2024 memorandum. and it is a violation of the government code for a person to furnish false or fraudulent evidence to the commission. but i also am struck by the fact that this is a law firm that appears to be pr respondents and separate and apart from the

requirements of the government code, the rules of professional conduct that apple several heret apply, would suggest that if that was a knowingly false statement, there were violations of ethics rules there that apply to attorneys. maybe beyond the jurisdiction of the ethics commission, but to the extent that you and staff think it may be appropriate to consider or other relevant to the state authorities might be appropriate rules of professional conduct 3.31 says that a lawyer shall not knowingly make a false statement of fact or law to a tribunal. it sounds like that may not apply here, depending on who they sent that memo to. but the ethics commission would be considered a tribunal under the rules of professional conduct. but beyond that, there are separate rules that prohibit a lawyer in the course of representing a client from making a false statement of material fact to any third person. and that's rule 4.1, a

and separately 3.4 c, a lawyer shall not falsify evidence or counsel or assist a witness to testify falsely. so i, i don't know if we have a procedure in place for considering those kinds of referrals, but that to me, struck, struck me as pretty shocking that there would be a false claim along those lines. thank you for that feedback, commissioner salahi. we do refer matters out to different agencies and departments, so we will take that feedback. we recognize the severity of that as well. and it was important that we highlighted that. so we'll take that for sure. and work on it and see. thank you. and just to clarify is the respondent who was the treasurer the same principal of that law firm? i'm sorry. can you repeat that? the respondent who was the treasurer. i think that was roy herrera. is that is he

affiliated with that law firm? that's correct sir. okay. yes. he is. commissioner francois, do you have any questions? does anyone in the room wish to. thank you, director matthews. any more questions, commissioner salahi? thank you. does anyone in the room wish to make public comment on this item? yes. good morning again. my name is ellen elan. l e z h o u. this item you sitting in here and say about making false statements. so i'm echoing and we respond to you accordingly. this item is a civil. it's not a civil case. it's a criminal case. according to what we learned from local newspaper, that's 28 pages.

possible indictment paper regarding this individual, including nine community leader, including including board of supervisor about criminal behav. they request the san francisco da and california general attorney attorney to do investigation for criminal activities. so that's one item going back to your fourth statement that you do things has to be truth. and clear, but yet you lie. item number three consent calendar. you lie about what i did not say in october 11th, 2024 consent calendar on your minutes. so on your minute. item number four from october 11, 2024 that you falsely accuse me. say something i never have

said publicly, but you have the guts. whoever take the minutes and whoever's in here last month, october 11th, 2024 i never said a name about my volunteer who passed away, but whoever made the minute put the name in your minute. full name, three different names last name, middle name, and first name that is called public accusation. now, i'm not sure if this is a violation of your conduct, or i'm not sure if this is a civil lawsuit for wrongful accuser. and i'm not sure if this is a violation of public statement that i did accused that. put it in your minutes. so right now, because you're doing things that are not according to the people's government, i am here to urge

you, you remove the name from october 11, 2024, because you are wrongfully accused for something i did not said and it's in public record. so i'm asking you if you tell people wrongful accuser, i'm asking you stop your wrongful accuser statement told me ellen li zhao and i demand you to correct your record. this is public record that you put some name i never mentioned in there. it became a privacy. it became a public record that you violate your own very old oath, make a statement that i did not quote. thank you. your time has expired. thank yo. thank you ma'am. and we don't normally respond to public comment, but i'll just note that to the extent the minutes, i don't think those comments were directed at commissioner sly specifically. i think the point is that the minutes may be inaccurately reflect some of your prior public comments. and if that's the case, we will correct them to reflect what you stated and that was thank you for bringing that to our attention. mister clerk, would you check if there's any remote

public comment on the item that we were discussing? chair, there's one caller in the queue. welcome, caller. your three minutes begins now. so who is the one that was speaking when i was speaking during public comment? so think about these two words. public comment. public comment. what do those two words mean? those are sacred space for public to make. comment. no commissioner, no attorney. the public makes the comment with regards to mark farrell. if you know anything about mark farrell. mark farrell can no longer practice law in the state of california. so says his record from the state bar look it up. so, you know this keeps going on about will we report it to the state bar. it's a moot point. he cannot practice law. it's a criminal investigation that should be done by the local authorities. i

mean, this is the most ridiculous commission that i've ever, ever seen. well, besides the police commission, of course. so get your act togethe, pack up your bags. just leave. say goodbye to breed and all the other appointees that appoint you. because you guys are worthless. mr. clerk, are there any other public callers? chair friendly. there are no more callers. thank you, mr. clerk. is there a motion on agenda item six? discussion and possible action regarding the proposed stipulation and the matter of mark farrell. and so on. i moved to approve it. second. second. sorry. commissioner francois seconds. mr. clerk, would you please take roll? on the on the motion to approve agenda item

number six. chair i, commissioner salahi. i, commissioner francois, i chrtese affirmative. the motion is approved unanimously. thank you, mr. clerk. i now call agenda item number seven. and i'll note at the outset that because we only have three commissioners present, we will not be able to vote on this item today. but i hope but we're going to have discussion on it. so i hope the representatives from, i think the supervisor's office and whoever else is here will participate because i have some questions. mr. canning. yes. thank you. chair, just to introduce this item, this is legislation referred from supervisor ronan's office, the board of supervisors, regarding the whistleblower program. the legislation would require reporting to the board of supervisors when a whistleblower investigation is completed by the comptroller's office involving an elected official or

department head, and this is before the commission today, because per section 4.103 changes to article four, chapter one of the campaign and governmental conduct code require a 4/5 vote by the ethics commission, as well as a two thirds vote by the board of supervisors to be enacted. staff have reviewed the proposed legislation and do not believe that it will impact the ethics commission's investigations, and would, you know, not have a detrimental effect and would potentially bring more transparency to the board of supervisors regarding the enforcement efforts of the comptroller's office and do not see a objection to that legislation. but yeah, as mentioned, a representative from supervisor ronan's office is here. thank you, mr. keating. i did have some questions on that point, and at some point i'd like our deputy city attorney to

weigh in. but first, i welcome the representative from supervisor's office to greet us. hi. good morning, anna herrera from supervisor hillary ronan's office. unfortunately, as you stated, you can't move forward because you don't have the four commissioners. so i'm here to answer any questions. but the fact is that as the lead sponsor and supervisor supervisor ronan is termed out. so we won't be able to move this forward. so maybe this comes back to you if another supervisor decides to pick it up. but do you mean because the supervisor won't be here next month when we reconvene? yeah, there's not enough time in the calendar to then move it to the board of supervisors. oh, i see, yeah. okay. well, in the event it comes back, i did have some questions that hopefully you can help us understand. and my colleagues may as well. the first question i have is just why? what's the point of this. why do we need this measure? it's just a simple, very narrow

amendment right now. currently, there's no requirement that the whistleblower program has to report to the board of supervisors once they substantiate that there's been■ wrongdoing by a department head or an elected official. this is just requiring them to take that step. but why does that matter? does the board what's the board's role in disciplining public employees? it's less about discipline and more about just public information. anytime this has come up in the last five years, which has been pretty frequently, it's been out in the news. it's been out in the media. we get constituent questions, we get media inquiries, and the supervisors are just as caught off guard and have no idea what what had gone on, what why this is going on. so it's just to provide more transparency in therocess. and then thank you for that. and i had another question. and then this may not be within your area. i'm curious when it's when the controller resolves an investigation or substantiates i think is the term you used. i don't know what that actually means. are they doing like a public hearing? is it does the accused person have some kind of role in it? because i don't think the legislation as

proposed defines or explains the comptroller's process. so it wasn't clear to me what triggers the actual proposed notification to the board. that's the whistleblower program has its own process. that's already that's already established. i'm not privy to all the details, but i think it's substantiated. once they conclude the investigation, which finds that they're guilty, you know, for lack of better words, for whatever wrongdoing. but do you know whether the employee at issue has any kind of a role in that any due process, or is it more of a one sided the controller investigates. and then my understanding is there is some process within that investigation. right? okay. and it may be moot if this isn't going forward, but if it comes back, that's something i'd want to understand better. and that may be more on the controller side. do my commissioners just the clarifying question, are the outcomes substantiated or not? otherwise public, or is this creating a way just for the

board of supervisors to figure out what the outcomes are once they're substantiated? i think they would be. they are public records. there's just no like requirement to share that. so unless someone knows, i'm sure they could ask. but the idea is just to share that that's happened. i see. so they're not published as a matter of course. it's right. right. thank you. then i did have just a question that maybe our mr. adams can weigh in, that my question was, when i read this, it looks like it would affect the ethics commission's investigations. but if that's not the case, i'd love to understand how that how that works. i think you're asking here about the reporting requirements specifically. correct? that's right. yeah. my concern is that it would require the controller to report ethics commission's investigations and 60 days in the world of investigations is not that long. and my concern■s is that that would interfere with the enforcement division's work. ifo the, you know, advice that our

department has given to our office is given to the other departments. but you might ask the sponsor how they interpret that language about the which paulnvestigations the controller would be referring on. i think the legislative digest also speaks to this pretty clearly, perhaps even more clearly than the language of the statute. when it talks about reporting of controller investigations. if you look at the look at that language in front of me, it says to report to the board of supervisors. i'm looking at the legislative digest, the result of any investigation where the controller concludes that a department head has engaged in unlawful activity. so that may speak a little bit more to your point about which investigations the controller is referring or not referring on. excuse me, reporting on. no, that's interesting because i think the language of the statute, the proposed text of the statute itself, doesn't say that. right. it says the results of any investigation that concludes that, etc. so maybe that if this comes back, we can reconcile the language of the proposed statute itself with the legislative digest, but then also begs the

question, what if both parties are investigating it? the comptroller's office and the ethics commission then? but the but the controller's office has made a conclusion, but the ethics commission has not. does that then create kind of dueling and inconsistent reporting? and they may they may not be an answer to th. but that's another concern that i'd have if this comes back. madam deputy city attorney, i don't know to that, but i don't. but it does seem like there's a possibility for some further. it seems like this is going to have to come backso to the extent the commission is sharing some concerns ow, the supervisor's office and with us, we can keep those in mind as the, you know, possible similar legislation comes forward. yeah. so, mr. chair, thank you for being here. maybe this is moot, but thank you for your time. and to the extent it does come back, those are some of the concerns, i think that they're not even concerns. they're just i think information gaps that like to understand better. commissioner francois, commissioner salahi, any other questions? thank you. while you're here, is there anything else you want to tell

us? but thank you for being here. no, that's i'm glad this is on the record and hopefully someone else does pick this up and that sounds like a clarifying amendment tt could be added. okay, next time you hear it. great. thank you so much. okay. thank you. even though we're not taking action, i think we have to take public comment because it's on our agenda. thank you. does anyone in the room wish to make public comment on this item? yes. good morning again. my name is ellen. l e n l e z h o u. i work for the public health for many yeari was a whistle blower and after we the people report what's wrong with certain department and we the public employees being retaliated. for example, in my example i report about covid 19 shots, a poison jab, a bio weapon and tell my public

health leaders and the whistleblowers and the city leaders, including the mayor and our board of supervisors. so what do i get? suspension and termination. so the whistleblower department is not like what you talk about in here. so for all the board of supervisors receiving and telling them from the medical perspective, covid 19 shot is a bio weapon against our very own people. many people will be dead. it has been die dead, suffering from public healthfore clarification of public, public practices. the government only have two responsibilities one public health, two public safety, and none of these two carry by any of the board of supervisors or the mayor or anybody working in here in the san francisco ethics commission.

and from the record that i have been coming here for the last many years, because i ran for office in 2018, 2019 and 2024 as a mayor candidate and also as a public employee for almost 20 years. i was wrongfully terminated because i report the truth about covid 19 shot. it's a bio weapon and due to religious exemption, many of the christian, i would say most of the christian turn in the religious exemption. what do we get? all christians, all catholics who turn in religious exemption was wrongfully terminated because we are unvaccinated. and till this day we have so many court cases. and who pays for the court cases? we, the plaintiff, paying our own cases, the defendant, the public, the public money defendant spent millions and

millions on whistleblower defending a bio weapon and refuse the public workers who are wrongfully terminated because we refuse to take the bioweapon covi 19 vaccine. so i am here to remind you your department has no power and your department is just another public puppet show for the public. so wake up. thank you. your time has expired. mr. clark, would you check if there's any remote public comment on this item? we are checking to see if there are any callers on this item. chairman live, there are no callers on this item. thank you. agenda item seven is now closed. i now call agenda item eight. discussion and possible action regarding the authority of the executive director to make amendments to the ethics commission's ethics commission regulations. mr. canning. thank

you. chair. this is more of an administrative matter for the commission regarding ethics commission regulations. from time to time, staff will observe not minor non-substantive errors with regulations. there are a couple of examples presented in the memo one with regulation 3.205-1, where clearly from the context of the reg and the legislation was intended to be march 31st, was entered as march 30th, as well as other kind off. the recommendation before the commission today is to pass a motion that would give the executive director the authority to make minor non-substantive amendments to commission regulations without requiring a vote by the commission, which we believe will just allow staff to, you know, efficiently maintain the regs without having to put matters before the commission that might not require your attention. thank

you. and those are helpful examples in the memo. this seems like a pretty straightforward no brainer to me. but colleagues, any questions? yeah, i agree with that. what? just for clarity, in the public record, is there a process for documenting what those changes are and reporting them out puicly other than actually modifying the text? just some way of keeping a record of when such changes are made. maybe. maybe there's maybe it's a good idea to have some sort of mechanism for that, whether it's publishing to the website or letting us know whenever that happens. just so there's some record of it. yeah, we can explore that. i think we currently don't have like pac versions of the regs on the website for kind of search reasons. if somebody looks and they looked at something that was maybe amended in the past, we want to have kind of on the website, have the current accurate version. so we might be able to explore ways to like have prior versions or, you know, have at least a document

on the record. if not maybe on the website for those kind of changes. yeah, i think, i think i was less concerned about having an archive of the past versions and just something that says on x date, we corrected this typo. okay. yeah, yeah. we could do like a notice on that, that goes on the website and doesn't, you know, restate the regs but just or, or just in an agenda packet. yeah. or maybe sorry i didn't mean to. no. it's okay. i was just thinking out loud. maybe in the executive director's report every 3 or 6 months or whatever, you can just compile. yeah, but it's a good it's a good point to kind of just make sure that people are aware of them. yeah. i think the executive director's report would be a good place for that. yeah. great. thank you. any commissioner francois does, anyone does anyone in the room wish to make public comment on this agenda item? seeing none. mr. clerk, would you check if there are any remote callers? chairman. live. ere are no callers. i move■.a( to adopt the staff's recommendation and agenda. item eight regarding the authority of the director to

make amendments to the ethics commission regarding revisions. is there a second i second, mr. clerk, would you take roll, please? on the motion to adopt the agenda, item number eight, chair finley, i, commissioner safaí i commissioner francois, i chair finley with three votes in the affirmative. the motion is approved unanimously. thank you, mr. clerk. i now invite. oh, sorry, mr. director. board, are you approaching for. sorry? where are we? please. okayay had something. i thought we were at the number nine. number nine? which is? please go ahead. yeah. thank you, chair finley, for the record, patrick ford, executive director. item nine contains a proposed meeting schedule for calendar year 2025. this is a

routine process that the commission goes through of setting its meeting schedule for each calendar year. and the schedule that is in this agenda item would follow the commission's current schedule for calendar year 2024, which . city hall, room 400 on the second friday. except for january and february, we're proposing to the commission that those two meetings be held on other days in order to accommodate the budgetd by the f supervisors. essentially, before a department submits their proposed budget to the mayor's office, we have to hold two public meetings to discuss the budget. and it's very difficult to follow the board of supervisors and mayor's budget timelines. if we were to keep

those second friday meetings first, we wouldn't have enough time from when we get the budget instructions to actually publish a budget proposal and be ready to discuss it by the second friday in january. and then in february, i think we wouldn't have enough time again to digest and have that meeting and be fruitful. so we're proposing just departing for those two meetings, but for the rest of the year to keep that standard schedule. i don't think i have anything else to say about this item. so glad to answer any questions you have. thank you. mr. ford. any of those states raise flags for my colleagues? not at this time. does anyone in the room wish to make public? thank you, mr. ford. does anyone in the room wish to make public comment on this item? yes. thank you. my name is ellen. l e n l e z o you. regarding this item, the ethics commission meetings, i would appreciate that the ethics commission, when you

cancel your meetings, that you send a mail alert to people. so people like me are coming in here. i've been here 20, 24 many times, but there's two times you cancel the meeting just one night before, just the day before, the morning before. so i took my time to be in here. i raised my guess. i raised my time. and as a courtesy. and you are a government public servant. and so that's my request. please alert people that you change your schedule farther away. not the morning, two hours before your meeting. being canceled. thank you. mr. clark, would you check if any remote public comment live? there are no callers. thank you, mr. clark. i moved to accept staff's recommended calendar and agenda.

item nine second. mr. clark, would you take roll, please? on the motion to accept item number nine. chair. chair finley, i. commissioner safaí, i commissioner francois i chair finley with three votes in the affirmative. the motion is approved unanimously. thank yout mr. clark. i'll now call item ten. discussion and possible action on future meetings and apologies, director ford, i thought this is the item we were on last time. that's why i was confused when you were at the podium. so that was my apologie. i had one kind of thought, and it's about the factors that we consider when we're looking at employment waivers. the disqualifications, and also, frankly, the penalty factors we consider in enforcement actions. to what extent are those something that we can supplement or add to? are they27. and i didn't give you a heads up about

this. so maybe you don't know. but my question is how much we can weigh in on considering additional or updating or modifying those factors that we consider. sure. so for the waiver standard that is in the code, but i think that the commission has shown a willingness to look at other factors beyond what's strictly stated in the code. that could be a reg project to memorialize additional factors that you look at. otherwise it would have to be a legislative project to go and actually change. for example, if you wanted there to be the same standard for eacof the different kinds of waivers, like to just make it no possibility for undue influence or unfair advantage as opposed to extreme hardship. if you just wanted to have one single standard, that would probably require legislation. but if you wanted to just iterate some additional factors that you want to have standardized as part of the process, i think a regulation would want to talk

with the city attorney's office, but to me that seems like that would be doable. is tth for thae same for the penalty considerations? yeah. penalty considerations. i know that those are in the enforcement regulations. so those are certainly within your purview change. and i know that that's on the enforcement division's schedule for the rest of this fiscal year, is to be reviewing those regulations and studying them and presenting some proposals to you of ways that they want to change the regs to support a better case resolution process. so i will communicate to them to also look at penalty factors and to talk with you about if there are additional factors or different factors you think would be better in there. we can roll that into that project. yeah. then could we also then roll in the waiver criteria for the employment waivers as part of that same conversation? or do you think they should be separate? i would suggest keeping those separate just since one is enforcement and one is, you know, compliance side project that probably michael would would lead on the waivers and bc would be leading

the enforcement one. that's a good point, right. keep that separate. and then for the madam deputy city attorney, i didn't flag this issue. so you may not have any immediate thoughts, but if you wanted to weigh in on, i guess, to pinpoint the questions space to kind of supplement the considerations that we consider in weighing the employment waivers and penalties? you know, i don't have anything to add at this point to what the executive director said, but i can certainly look into that as well. and we would, of course, work closely with the staff on whichever, whichever aspect we're looking at. but i do think that that idea of looking at those as two separate tracks on the compliance versus the enforcement side is probably one one helpful step. there. and then, of course, thinking about what's in the statutes versus what's in the regulations. great. thank you. i have a question on that for the waiver criteria side. to the extent that that standard is set in the code is our what room do we have through regulations to try to

construe that and elaborate the factors that we think fall under what what the code says? i assume it's just as long as it's not inconsistent. i think that's sort of the first cut is it's not inconsistent. depending on the have to work with the staff to make sure that that's, you know, within a plausible reading of the statute and is there room? is there room as an interpretive device through regulations, or is it really changing the meaning of the statute, which would probably require a legislative process? okay. thank you, mr. canning. yeah. if i can add to add to that the what's in the code are the standards that need to be met. so the finding extreme hardship or the potential for undue influence or unfair advantage, all of the factors that the commission to e standards are met, those are all in the regs. so there is you know, i think and one of those factors is any other factors the commission deems relevant. so in recent waivers, the commission has taken a pretty broad interpretation of that and pulled in additional factors

when it thought relevant. thank you for that clarification. that's super helpful. great. commissioner francois, any further meetings did i don't think i took public comment on this yet. does anyone in the room wish to me public comment on agenda item ten? discussion and possible action on future meetings? seeing none. mr. clark, would you check if there are any remote folks? if there are no callers for item ten is now closed. i now call item 11 one additional opportunity for public comment. does anyone in the room wish to make public. wg again. happy friday. my name is ellen l l e n z h o u. i want you all to know if you spend your time working for the government, get paid or volunteer as commissioners, you

sit in there, but you're not productive to our life. we still have a lot of homeless people dying. we still have a lot of missing people from san francisco street, and we still ha all those corruptions going on. and we have 13 positions for november 5th, 2024 election. we had about 100 people. candidates come out to run for 13 offices, myself for example. this is my third time that i that i come out, run for mayor. i run in201a conservative mother, a pro-life mother, a christian, and an immigrant, and was a public worker for almost 20 years. and yesporter for president trump. so this is the point. the government only has two public duties public health and public safety. with your ethics commission or civil commission or any other commission, has nothing to do with the quality of life in san

francisco. obviously, many of the people are appointed into the position as commissioners. so in your department at the wad by the voters in 1993.t now, 201 years, what have you done that is good. good for public safety, good for public health? the answer is nothing. so with you commission alive or closerminat. impathr you to raise your time in here. i'm not talking■j&á about you an individual. i'm talking about at the commissions because obviously san francisco has been controlled by the deep state. the puppet masters is called agenda 21, fail dead. now they're working on agenda 2030, which is the new world order. another word for globalists, the elites, the non-elected public

people trying to kill you and me and other people in america so they can take america. we move you the lib, happiness and safety. take a look in san francisco, 59 years, one party democrats, anyone who's conservative opposed them, what do they do? harassment, discrimination. before the election begins, they've already picked five criminals and say, these are the people that they will support. so you see at the commission, you have no judicial power for what you do, and you're just sitting here wasting your time, your personal time, and thinking you're doing good. but san francisco has been worse than the third world. and more people die, more drug dealing and more people left san francischank you. your time has expired. mr. clark, would you check if there any remote callers? fan live. there are no

callers. thank you. hearing no further callers. this additional opportunity for public comment under 11 is now closed. i now you. this concludes oururnment. november 8th, 2024 meeting of the san francisco ethics commission. ■g

>> you're watching san francisco rising with chris guest is mary chu. >> hi. i'm chris manors, and you're rising on san francisco rising. the show that's focused on rebuilding, reimagining, and restarting our city. our guest today is mary chu, and she's here to talk with us about art and the san francisco art commission. well come, miss chu. >> thanks for having me. >> it's great to have you. let's talk about art in the city and how art instlations are funded. >> the a

funded in 1932 and support civic review, design investments and art galleries. projects we have are funded by the city's art enrichment ordinance which provides 2% of construction costs for public art. >> so art is tied to construction. there's been a great deal in the southwest of the city. can you talk about some of the projects there? >> sure. our city has some exciting projected in the■[ bayview-hunters point coming up. one artist created a photo collage. in the picture pavilion, one

artist formed a collage of her one-year residency coming together with residents, and anchoring the new center is a landmark bronze sculpture, inspired by traditional ivory coast currency which the artists significantly enlarges predominantly african american community in bayview hunters point. >> are there any art installations around town that uses light as a medium? >> yes. the first is on van ness between o'farrell andásit's fu

van ness geary street project. another project is for the central subway. it is one of ten artworks commissioned for the new line. it's over 650 feet long, consis o 550 l.e.d. panels between the powell street station and the union street station. it's called lucy in the sky, and the lights are patterned with unique sequences so that commuters can experience a unique pattern each time they pass through. >> perfect. what about the early day sculpture that was removed from the civic center? >> this is a question that cities have been grappling with

nationwide. following the removal of early toppling of statues in golden gate park as well as the removal of the christopher columbus statue. we are partnering with the parks department as well as the community to engage with the to evaluate the existing monuments and memorials in the civic arts collection and the rel a monument or statue but also installing new ones. >> finally, it seems like the weather might be nice this weekend. if i fancy taking a walk and

seeing some outdoor art, where would you suggest i go? >> well, i would suggest the embarcadero. this work was commissioned with funds from the fire station 35. this suggests the bow of a boat and the glass panel surrounding the structure depict the history of fireboats in the bay area. >> and where can i go from there? >> then, i would walk up to the justin herman plaza to check out the work of the art vendors. then check out the monuments like the mechanics monument. also, be sure to check out the poster series, installed in bus kiosks along market street, which features four artists each year.

>> well, thank you. i appreciate you coming on the show, miss chu. thank you for your time today. >> thank you, chris. >> that's it for this episode. we'll be back with another sho (clapping.) the airport it where i know to mind visions of traffic romance and excitement and gourmet can you limousine we're at san francisco inspirational airport to discover the award-winning concession that conspiracies us around the world. sfo serves are more 40 million travelers a year and a lot of the them are hungry there's many restaurant and nearly all are

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had 97 percent open that. >> wow. >> have you taken up anything unique or odd here. >> i've picked up a few things in napa valley i love checking chocolates there's a lot of types of chocolate and caramel corn. >> now this is a given right there. >> i'm curious about the customer externals and how people are richmond to this collection of cities you've put together not only of san francisco food in san francisco but food across the bay area. >> this type of market with the local savors the high-end products is great. >> i know people can't believe they're in an airport i really

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raised in san francisco. cable car equipment, technically i'm a transit operator of 135 and work at the cable car (indiscernible) and been here for 22 years now. i grew up around here when i was a little can i. my mom used to hang in china town with her friends and i would get bored and they would shove me out of the door, go play and find something to do. i ended up wandering down here when i was a kid and found these things. ♪ [ music ] ♪ ♪ >> fascinated by them and i wanted to be a cable car equipment from the time i was a little kid. i started with the emergency at the end of 1988 and drove a bus for a year and a half and i got lucky with my timing and got here at cable car and at that time, it really took

about an average five to maybe seven years on a bus before you could build up your seniority to come over here. basically, this is the 1890s verse ever a bus. this is your basic public transportation and at the time at its height, 1893, there were 20 different routes ask this powerhouse, there -- and this powerhouse, there were 15f them through out the entire city. >> i work at the cable car division and bunch with muni for 25 years and working with cable cars for 23 years. this is called the bar because these things are horses and work hard so they have to have a place to sleep at night. joking. this is called a barn because everything takes place here and the po -- that's downstairs so that's the heart and soul of the system and this is where the cable cars sleep or sleep at night so you can put a

title there saying the barn. since 1873 and back in the day it was driven by a team and now it's electric but it has a good function as being called the barn. yeah. >> i am the superintendent of cable car vehicle maintenance. and we are on the first and a half floor of the cable car barn where you can see the cables are moving at nine and a half miles an hour and that's causing the little extra noise we're hearing now. we have 28 power cars and 12 california cars for a total of 40 revenue cars. then with have two in storage. there's four gear boxes. it's gears of the motor. they weigh close to 20 tons and they had to do a special system to get them out of here because whe they put them in here, the barn was opened up. we did the whole barn that year so it's difficult for a first of time project, we

changed it one at a time and now they are all brand-new. engineer's room have the four monitors that play the speed and she monitors them and in case of an emergency, she can shutdown all four cars if she needs to. that sound you heard there, that's a gentleman building, rebuilding a cable. the cable weighs four hundred pounds each and they lost three days before we have to rebuild them. the cable car grips, the bottom point is underground with the cable. it's a giant buy strip and closes around the kab and they pull it back. the cable car weighs 2,500 people without people so it's heavy, emergency pulling it offer the hill. if it comes offer the hill, it could be one wire but if it unravels, it turns into a ball and they cannot let go of it because it opens that wide and it's a billion pushing the grip which

is pushing the whole cable car and there's no way to let go so they have to have the code 900 to shutdown in emergencies and the wood brakes last two days and wear out. a lot of maintenance. ♪ [ music ] ♪ ♪ >> rail was considered to be the

old thing. rubber tires, cars, buses, that's new. there were definitely faster and cheaper, there's no question about that. here at san francisco, we went through the same thing. the mayor decided we don't need cable cars (indiscernible), blah, blah. we can replace them with buses. they are faster and cheaper and more economical and he was right if you look at the dollars and cents part. he was right. >> back in 1947 when they voted that, i'm surprised base of the technology and the chronicle paper says cable cars out. that was the headline. that was the demise of the cable cars. >> (indiscernible) came along and said, stop. no. no, no, no. she was the first one to say we're going to fight city hall. she got her friends together and they started from a group called the save the cable car community, 1947 and managed to get it on the ballot. are we going to keep the cable cars or not? head turned nationwide and

worldwide and city hall was completely unprepared for the amount of backlash they got. this is just a bunch -- the city came out and said basically, 3-1, if i'm not mistaken, we want our cars and phil and her group managed to save what we have. and literately if it wasn't for them, there would be no cable cars. people saw th we see today that you can't get rid of a beautiful and it wasn't a historical monument at the time and now it is, and it was part of san francisco. yeah, we had freight back then. we don't have that anymore. this is the number one tourist attraction in san francisco. it's historic and the only national moving monument in the world. >> the city of san francisco did keep the cable car so it's a fascinating feel of having something that is so historic going up and down these hills of san francisco. and obviously, everyone knows san francisco is

famous for their hills. [laughter] and who would know and who would guess that they were trying to get rid of it, which i guess was a crazy idea at the time because they felt automobiles were taking the place of the cable cars and getting rid of the cable car was the best thing for the city and county of san francisco, but thank god it didn't. >> how soon has the city changed? the diverse of cable cars -- when i first came to cable car, sandy barn was the first cable car. we have three or four being a grip person. fwriping cable cars is the most toughest and challenging job in the entire city. >> i want to thank our women who operate our cable cars because they are a crucial space of the city to the world. we have wonderful women -- come on

forward, yes. [cheers and applause] these ladies, these ladies, this is what it's about. continuing to empower women. >> my name is willa johnson is and i've been at cable car for 13 years. came to san francisco when i was five years old. and that is the first time i rode a cable car and i went to see a christmas tree and we rode the cable car with the christmas worker and that was the first time i rode the cable car and didn't ride again until i worked here. i was in the medical field for a while and i wanted a change. some people don't do that but i started with the mta of september of 1999 and came over to cable car in 2008. it was a general sign up and that's when you can go to different

divisions and i signed up as a conductor and came over here and been here since. there were a few ladies that were over at woods that wanted to come over here and we had decided we wanted to leave woods and come to a different division and cable car was it. i do know there has been only four women that work the cable car in the 150 years and i am the second person to represent the cable car and i also know that during the 19, i think 60s and women were not even allowed to ride on the side of a cable car so it's exciting to know you can go from not riding on the side board of a cable car to actually grip and driving the cable car and it opened the door for a lot of people to have the opportunity

to do what they inspire to do. >> i have some people say i wouldn't make it as a conductor at woods and i came and made it as i conductor and the best thing i did was to come to this division. it's a good division. and i like ripping cable cars. i do. >> i think she just tapped into the general feeling that san francisco tend to have of, this is ours, it's special, it's unique. economically and you know, a rationale sense, does it make sense? not really. but from here, if you think from here, no, we don't need this but if you think from here, yeah. and it turns out she was right. so.... and i'm grateful to her. very grateful. [laughter]

> three, two, one. [multiple voices] [cheers and applause] >> did i -- i did that on purpose so i wouldn't. ♪ [ music ] ♪ dn >> welcome to "culturewire." today we are at recology.

they are celebrate 20 years of one of the most incredibly unique artist residency programs. we are here to learn more from one of the resident artists. welcome to the show, deborah. tell us how this program began 20 years ago. >> the program began 20 years ago. our founder was an environmentalist and an activist and an artist in the 1970's. she started sweeping campaigns in the city. she started with kids. they had an exhibition at city hall. city officials heard about her efforts and they invited her to this facility. we thought it would coincide with our efforts to get folks to recycle, it is a great educational tool. since then, we have had 95 professional artists come through. >> how has the program changed over the years?

how has the program -- what can the public has an artist engage with? >> for the most part, we worked with metal and wood, what you would expect from a program like ours. over the years, we tried to include artists and all types of mediums. conceptual artists, at installation, photographers, viographers. >> that has really expanded the program out. it is becoming so dynamic right now with your vision of interesting artists in gauging here. why would an artist when to come here? >> mainly, access to the materials. we also give them a lot of support. when they start, it is an empty studio. they go out to the public area and -- we call it the big store. they go out shopping, take the materials that, and get to work. it is kind of like a reprieve,

so they can really focus on their body of work. >> when you are talking about recology, do you have the only sculpture garden at the top? >> it is based on work that was done many years ago in new york. it is the only kind of structured, artist program. weit is the plants you see were we use our compost to transplant them. the pathway is lined with rubble from the earthquake from the freeways we tour about 5000 people a year to our facility, adults and children. we talk about recycling and conservation. they can meet the artists. >> fantastic. let's go meet some of your current artists. here we are with lauren.

can you tell us how long have been here so far and what you're working on? >> we started our residency on june 1, so we came into the studio then and spent most of the first couple weeks just digging around in the trash. i am continuing my body of work, kind of making these hand- embroidered objects from our day-to-day life. >> can you describe some of the things you have been making here? this is amazing. >> i think i started a lot of my work about the qualities of light is in the weight. i have been thinking a lot about things floating through the air. it is also very windy down here. there is a piece of sheet music up there that i have embroidered third. there is a pamphlet about hearing dea -- nearing death.

this is a dead rabbit. this is now. this is a greeting card that i found, making it embroidered. it is for a very special friend. >> while we were looking at this, i glanced down and this is amazing, and it is on top of a book, it is ridiculous and amazing. >> i am interested in the serendipity of these still life compositions. when he got to the garbage and to see the arrangement of objects that is completely spontaneous. it is probably one of the least thought of compositions. people are getting rid of this stuff. it holds no real value to them, because they're disposing of it. >> we're here in another recology studio with abel. what attracted you to apply for this special program? >> who would not want to come to the dump? but is the first question.

for me, being in a situation that you're not comfortable in has always been the best. >> what materials were you immediately attracted to when you started and so what was available here? >> there are a lot of books. that is one of the thing that hits me the most. books are good for understanding, language, and art in general. also being a graphic designer, going straight to the magazines and seeing all this printed material being discarded has also been part of my work. of course, always wood or any kind of plastic form or anything like that. >> job mr. some of the pieces you have made while you have been here. -- taught me through some of the pieces you have made while you have been here. >> the first thing that attracted me to this was the printed surface. it was actually a poster. about 8 feet long. in sof the flatwork, i work with a lot of cloddish. so being able to cut into it

come at into it, removed parts, it is part of the process of negotiating the final form. >> how do you jump from the two dimensional work that you create to the three-dimensional? maybe going back from the 3f to 2d. >> everything is in the process of becoming. things are never said or settled. made while i am doing the collages, and vice versa. it becomes a part of something else. there's always this figuring out of where things belong or where they could parapets something else. at the end goal is to possibly see one of these collage plan be built out and create a structure that reflects back into the flat work. >> thank you so much for allowing "culturewire" to visit

this amazing facility and to learn more about the artists in residence program. is there anything you like our viewers to know? >> we have art exhibitions every four months, and a win by the public to come out. everybody is welcome to come out. we have food. sometimes we have gains and bands. it is great time. from june to september, we accept applications from bay area artists. we encouraged artists from all mediums to apply. we want as many artists from the bay area out here so they can have the same experience. >> how many artists to do your host here? >> 6 artist a year, and we receive about 108 applications. very competitive. >> but everyone should be encouraged to apply. thank you again for hosting us. >> thank you for including us in "culturewire." ♪

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dedicated to promote equal arts environment in san francisco, we are committed to supporting the traditional and contemporary evolution of the american indian community. i'd like to call item 2, general commentful members can comment on matters in the purview and suggest new agenda items for considation. is there any public comment on item 2 general public comment? >> there is no public, public

comment is closed. >> thanks, greg. i like to call the consent calendar do we have a discussion and possible action asking for commissioners with drawls or recruiseals at this time of we will take the consent items. calling for commissioners discussion. or comments. seeing 91 calling for public comment is there public comment on item 3 the consent calendar? >> there is in public in attendance. public comment is closed. >> all right.. i'd like to call for a motion.

>> so move commissioner beltran. >> seconded commissioner hakimi. in favor say, aye. >> the motion passes. thank you. >> calling item 4 the■, maya angelou monment approve the completed art work port trait of a phenomenonal women 2024. and lara thomas studio for the approximately library main branch. art work rons and stone base is instewed on the main entrance plaza on larkin measures 109 inches by 30 >>s. i'd like to introduce senior program jackie von to present. jackie? >> good afternoon. commissioners. it gifts me pleasure to present to you today for approval the

first monument commencementerating a san francisco in the portrait of a phenomenonal woman to doctor maya angelou at the san francisco main library. berkley based artist lava thomas tackles issues through a practice that stems drawing, painting, photography, skufrment sculptor and site specific. drawing for family's southern roots and political eventses and feminism and african-american prosecute test and devotional traditions lifea's practice amplifies the stability, heeling and empowerment in the face of eraser, trauma and oshg preparation. complete in the july 2019 the art work to doctor afternoon low began with research e mersing herself in the works interviews and performances. and reading w black

women write torse provide a context to think about her life and work. selected art work in angelou's collection and drawn to port traits and conducted research to see what imans of doctor afternoon low predominated over this process, clear to lava she did not want to use an image that was almost familiar. including an around representation that does in the exist. portrait of a phenomenonal woman claims a new visual territory alawing afternoon low to be seen in a fresh way and embodying courage, beaut and he fierce self possession. a new icon choice upon driven by ■?her words how she defined herself and values and the plots fee of her life and work. the monument takes the form of

an open book with doctor afternoon low from lava's original drawing on the cover. her name in bold on the spinal. book form of her life and works ties the monument to the site the scale emphasizes the experience of the library in reading through the course of there afternoon low's life. impact on the literary cannon and significant cans of african-american achievement despite historic antiliteracy laws in the u.s. presented free black people to learn to read or write. >> fabricate in the bronze in washington the sculptor measures 96 inches high by 75 inches wide and 26 inches deep. the salt stone base by american soil and stone in richmond measures 12 inches high by 80 by

30. make it stand at 9 feet tall. lifea's choice of bronze inspired biwest africa and a list of the memorial to invisible man a monolith in harlem. in making the aesthetic choices traditional west african sculptor and art of the african diapps ra. lava's port trait is based on stills from 1973 interview be big miers. her port trait is timeless and universal. making effort the artist hand the port trait captures her life and the important and her important with a nuanced expression intercepted different low by each person transending the dkdz which is based and

timeless presence into the future. read cal and powerful in simple lipsity. lifea's port trait and the monument reveals the hand of the artist and allows you to see the life of a complex human. acknowledges and revealses multitude withinful depict her as a young woman to be beacon of possibilities for a young are generation. young women and girls. the art work installod monday september 16 by the crew of fine art's service under■í lava's watchful eye. >> the following thursday september 19th the monument unveiled to 500 including members of doctor angelou's family. one of the first of the kind for the art's commission remarks by gina former pedestrian glide memorial chur kim shuck.icheal lambert.

this was rounded out by inspiring performances as well as youth speaks and shakespeare company who received grants to support performances and programming developed with the monument unveiling. on the base the title of her poem i rise. a lasting declaration of perseverance and triumph in the face of adversity. the back from an interview with mya, how

further reenforces the perjuries of the library and how reading and information emathand he understanding necessary qualities to counter ignorance and ill ton rans read fist information helps you to see you are not alone. machine in mississippi and tokyo who wept and longed and lost and all happy. helps you see you are not alone and no different from everyone else. there may be detail catharsis different but a human being is a human being. >> i want to close this by acknowledging the team who guide this to completion. starlts welcome lava thomas a woman and artist an honor to be in service to your vision and h

managers. and art's commission staff. and with that i conclude my presentation. at the san francisco main library as installed. thank you. [applause] thank you, jackie and thank you so much for your work and seeing project through.

it was a long time coming and it is unbelievablely heart warming to have the first almost getting -- first sculptor to a black woman in our city. long over due. so, thank you for your work on that, and thank you lava for your work on that and seeing through i knew it was a challenge at times for the project and we are so happy to see it manifestd and in place. thank you. >> opening up to commissioner comments. >> first of all, really spectacular, gorgeous and outstanding presentation. i don't know who did the photographer but, mazing story. but who did it and who put this together, it is really wonderful piece of story telling about the projt. thanyou. i wanted to call out a couple of

things that make this remarkable and also brilliant our program staff is. our is that plural. and so and that is that -- i happen to be on the selection committee for this. what soeldz meet idea of the concept this was unique image caught not with maya angelou posing but in her natural habitat she is speaking with bill moyer. she took this as a video still. it is not like a travel. looked through hours of coverage and got the footage.

to get right expression. translateed a drawing and worked with to translate that to a 3d sculptor speaks to the staff that we collaborate with■+z arts who never worked in a 3d medium to transfer the art practice. looked real and oranges in bronze i'm blown away. i wanted to -- remember call this out. any other commissioner comments?

ditto. another hand to program staff. so. i wanted to say thank you, jack and he for you will your w on thank you, mayor and he suzanne and alita lee and alison comings and the staff. i mean i want to say -- thank you for your courage. the staff we are here and your expertise and hang nothing there it was difficult process. and i know how hard that can be when you are trying to do a job and other things come in the way and -- you have to get through it and you s the beauty in

front of the library and that presentation. thank you. and just again. thank you to our staff. thank you and i want to say i know i said a couple times thank you to the staff that worked on this. i know this it was a challenging project. i was upset i was too sick to be opening i was planning on it and wanted be there. i have been by it and it is beautiful. turned out better that i think we anticipated. that's a testament to lava loveing piece and taking the feedback and implementing her vision as well as you know that

story and how it really delves into the life not just the subject but the artist. thank you. i was not here when the project from inception and the challenge its had i came after approved and implements. i have garthed it was challenging for all of you. and i was there when they unveiled it and one of the moments that made me realize how privilege ird am to serve on this commission. this was hard work. thank you. thank you and it was just magical the event was magical. what will live behind will be magical thank you.

i think this is a test am to the work and the important work the art's commission does. the staff as well as how we collaborate with staff that is an important relationship that we try to foster here and for the benefit our city and community. so -- yea, thank you. why any other comments or questions? i'veed like to call for public comment for item 4 the doctor angelou monument. well is no public in attendance. it is now closed. i would like to ask for a motion >> so moved. commissioner beltran.

all in favor. >> aye >> this motion passes unanimously. thank you, jack and he staff. >> calling item 5 the public art program and art collection year 2024 report. we have a discussion and presentation of the public art program and -- civic art collections report. i'd like to introduce art collection and public art program director mary chu and administrator come to present. happy to be here with my clothe to present on -- okay. on the wor have been doing the past year 2024. i will just jump in and we present this report every fiscal year to give you a sense of the w we have been doing for this

past year. so. typically start off with a summary o the art expenditures for 2024. we have a total amount of art investment public art investment of 1.6 million. and can you seat break down. most television as usual guess on art work design and fabrication that includes artist contracts, purchase of two d work, loans, fabrication and framing. the toll collections investment is 910,000. and al son-in-law present that number later. a total investment including staff of almost 4.5 million. we have the poster series.

we have in terms of work 3 projects. gene friend rec center the marine street project and pier 27 cruise terminal. and two d purchase fort 3 connector. these are images that reminds you of the new purchases and selections. new work be installed on both sides of the al san sfo. this is the piece for the port. 2000 marine. and then for drfks and methodology i will present the statistic from left year. the drafk survey is per of the

application package. with state law it cannot be used in consideration when awarding contracts the funding amounts i'm listing in the next slides are based on artist fee not total budget costs. this is the break down most commissions going to female artists 61%. in terms of dollar amount the majority to male. here was one commission significant in dollar amount causing what you see in the numbers.

in terms of number, most of the commission's and in dollar amounts went to artists identify as black. mirndzian artists. primarily due to the work on the market street poster series focused on native bay area people. in terms of break down in location, you see that most of the number of commissions and purchases to san finish bay artists. and also you see that the majorities of the dollars went to a national artist and this is because of upon one commission that was largered size. and a quick over view of the completed public art projects. projects approvedtalled in fiscal 24.

this is on the construction barricade for the wastewater treatment plant. and next to that is the permanent work -- the head works, whirl, whirl. fog liys at the west side pump station. and another mural the only blue is the sky. the art on market street poster series. we have one that is coming up. hopefully to be installed december through february of next year. i will turn it over to talk about the collections.

good afternoon. commissioners. go back to the charts special we'll gethi pretty pictures i promise. i will talk about our budget for fy24 and allat this is slide from last year's presentation. shoes the history capitol allingcasion. this shoes where we were approaching the pandemic and the drob we experienced in our allocations from the city for care of the collection. i'm happy to report them is something i looked forward to. we worked with capitol planning last budget season to build,